History Literature / MySisterRosa

* BittersweetEnding: It's very close to DownerEnding. Rosa outs [[spoiler: their father as a "psychopath" after convincing her best friend Seimone McBrunight to murder her twin sister Maya. He flees and disappears. The [=McBrunight=]s pay for Che's family to fly back to Australia and never return. Sojourner also breaks up with Che as a result of the murder, since she's worried that the psychopathy may pass down to their children. But Leilani [=McBrunight=] understands Che is a victim of this situation and urges him to get out of it, promising to visit him when he does. Che promises himself to do so and escape his sister's influence. He also clears his name with the investigators when camera footage from a nearby store shows that Seimone pushed Maya]].
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Subverted. Rosa is outraged when a drunk man harasses a lady on a flight and reports him tot he attendant. She sees it at a game, however, and steals his passport when he's not looking.

''My Sister Rosa'' is a YoungAdult thriller novel by Justine Larbalestier.

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* BittersweetEnding: It's very close to DownerEnding. Rosa outs [[spoiler: their father as a "psychopath" after convincing her best friend Seimone McBrunight to murder her twin sister Maya. He flees and disappears. The [=McBrunight=]s pay for Che's family to fly back to Australia and never return. Sojourner also breaks up with Che as a result of the murder, since she's worried that the psychopathy may pass down to their children. But Leilani [=McBrunight=] understands Che is a victim of this situation and urges him to get out of it, promising to visit him when he does. Che promises himself to do so and escape his sister's influence. He also clears his name with the investigators when camera footage from a nearby store shows that SEimone pushed Maya]].

* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: Coming from Rosa of all people. She says that Che and she are NotSoDifferent since they're from the same genetics, and Che snarks that if that were true then he would be smarter. Rosa said he's smart in a different way; her being born taught him not to go down the path she [[spoiler:or David did]].

Che wants several things out of a move from Australia to the United States: improve at sparring, return home, get a girlfriend, and keep his little sister under control. The latter proves to be a problem since Rosa is a borderline sociopath and has hurt everyone in her life with manipulative behavior. As Che learns that his parents are not what they seem as they start a business with the McBrunights for sponsors, Rosa's actions become worse and worse.

* BittersweetEnding: It's very close to DownerEnding. Rosa outs [[spoiler:their father as a "psychopath" after convincing her best friend Seimone McBrunight to murder her twin sister Maya. The McBrunights pay for Che's family to fly back to Australia and never return. Sojourner also breaks up with Che as a result of the murder, since she's worried that the psychopathy may pass down to their children. But Leilani McBrunight understands Che is a victim of this situation and urges him to get out of it, promising to visit him when he does. Che promises himself to do so and escape his sister's influence]].

* ImplausibleDeniability: Che's mother knew [[spoiler:exactly the type of man that she was marrying, but he still won her over. By the end, she's destroyed and convince that Che is exactly the same as Rosa]].